Abstract: In a metro city like Mumbai Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is increasing day by day. These solid waste are dumped on different places across the city. Due to this pollution is increasing which is not good for the people living in this city. It is not only dangerous for short term but solid waste also has long term effects and it adversely affects the health of the people living in Mumbai. Serious concerns arises due to it, making it obligatory to convert solid waste into other useful products like transportation fuel, electrical energy etc. Though reducing waste the waste ending in the environment. Transportation fuel can be generated from MSW by many methods which will restrict amount of waste and also give us transportation fuel. By converting MSW into other useful products the damage caused by generation and accumulation of solid waste can be effectively reduced. Thus it is of vital importance to make use of municipal solid waste in a way to reduce its quantity and simultaneously producing energy during the process. This way it would reduce the land required for dumping waste and make provision for future growth of a metropolitan city like Mumbai. The generated fuel can be used for powering vehicles. In this paper various methods implemented for obtaining transportation fuel from MSW is the main focus. Further the paper will disclose how other countries have successfully generated transportation fuel from MSW and also on how such methods can be implemented in Mumbai as well.
Keywords: Solid waste, transportation fuel, municipal solid waste, waste management, MSW, Mumbai, solid waste management.
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